*I strongly agree with John Hendy: Robert Chassel's "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp":
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/ --should be mastered first (it should be the first book @everyone@ reads.) *O'Reilly's "Safari" has online books for $20/month you can put 10 books on your online "bookshelf"--you can put Learning EMACS and/or EMACS Extensions on your bookshelf and then download the .pdf and use DOCVIEW to read in EMACS and/or use the TEXINFO file and read it in EMACS and/or put your cursor on something you don't understand and type "Mx man" and/or do pdf2txt on the .pdf and put that into emacs: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565922617/ **Could do "wget -m -np http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/index.html" and put the reference manual on you're hard-drive--then use "Mx dired" or a browser to browse it. *Remember also, you can extend ELISP with COMMON LISP using the "cl" package: "Notably, the "cl" package implements a fairly large subset of Common Lisp." (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp) --then use some COMMOM LISP: http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/emacs-ide.html *In grad school I downloaded the reference at: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm ---made a mirror of the entire doc tree on my hard-drive---it worked as a great reference in alpha order (for common lisp--but you can always extend elisp if you see something you like): http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_Master.htm On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Matthew Sauer <improv.philoso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am wanting to learn about/have a reference guide for elisp. I am a huge > fan of the O'Reilly books for the other languages I have worked with but I > was wondering if someone knew of an online repository (possibly like Worg) > that might be available to pull onto my system that I could read right in > emacs. > > Thanks, > > Matt